From "Autobiography of an Ordinary Man, by Reverend Harrison Bradford:"
"About the only compensation I remember that came to me during the war was the meeting and falling in love 'head over heels' with the brightest and loveliest girl of our part of Louisiana. Her name was Lizzie Shelmire. Her father, Tom Shelmire, was Pennsylvania Dutchman, and I think her mother was a French Creole, and the combination resulted in a fine team of thoroughbred Louisianans, and the children, John, Lizzie, Minnie and Jesse are fine examples of the stock that came from this father and mother.
...In November 1898, in a moment, death robbed us of one of the best wives and mothers the world ever saw. My dear wife was stricken with apoplexy, and in a few hours, died, the saddest blow our family ever had. May God help each of us, the remaining members of her family to meet her as we enter the gates of the Beautiful City."
Mrs. L.(H.) C. Bradford died suddenly of apoplexy at the family residence, 319 Routh street, about 9 o'clock last night. She and her son, H. C. Bradford, who had been downtown, returned home on a car at 7 o'clock. After eating supper, she was taken sick, and although everything that medical aid could do was rendered, she expired within an hour. Mrs. Bradford was 51 years of age. She was the wife of Mr. Harrison Bradford and the mother of Messrs. T. L. and H. C. Bradford. The funeral will occur from the residence at 10 o'clock Monday morning.
- November 20, 1898, Dallas Morning News, p. 4, col. 2.
"About the only compensation I remember that came to me during the war was the meeting and falling in love 'head over heels' with the brightest and loveliest girl of our part of Louisiana. Her name was Lizzie Shelmire. Her father, Tom Shelmire, was Pennsylvania Dutchman, and I think her mother was a French Creole, and the combination resulted in a fine team of thoroughbred Louisianans, and the children, John, Lizzie, Minnie and Jesse are fine examples of the stock that came from this father and mother.
...In November 1898, in a moment, death robbed us of one of the best wives and mothers the world ever saw. My dear wife was stricken with apoplexy, and in a few hours, died, the saddest blow our family ever had. May God help each of us, the remaining members of her family to meet her as we enter the gates of the Beautiful City."
Mrs. L.(H.) C. Bradford died suddenly of apoplexy at the family residence, 319 Routh street, about 9 o'clock last night. She and her son, H. C. Bradford, who had been downtown, returned home on a car at 7 o'clock. After eating supper, she was taken sick, and although everything that medical aid could do was rendered, she expired within an hour. Mrs. Bradford was 51 years of age. She was the wife of Mr. Harrison Bradford and the mother of Messrs. T. L. and H. C. Bradford. The funeral will occur from the residence at 10 o'clock Monday morning.
- November 20, 1898, Dallas Morning News, p. 4, col. 2.
From "Autobiography of an Ordinary Man, by Reverend Harrison Bradford:"
"About the only compensation I remember that came to me during the war was the meeting and falling in love 'head over heels' with the brightest and loveliest girl of our part of Louisiana. Her name was Lizzie Shelmire. Her father, Tom Shelmire, was Pennsylvania Dutchman, and I think her mother was a French Creole, and the combination resulted in a fine team of thoroughbred Louisianans, and the children, John, Lizzie, Minnie and Jesse are fine examples of the stock that came from this father and mother.
...In November 1898, in a moment, death robbed us of one of the best wives and mothers the world ever saw. My dear wife was stricken with apoplexy, and in a few hours, died, the saddest blow our family ever had. May God help each of us, the remaining members of her family to meet her as we enter the gates of the Beautiful City."
Mrs. L.(H.) C. Bradford died suddenly of apoplexy at the family residence, 319 Routh street, about 9 o'clock last night. She and her son, H. C. Bradford, who had been downtown, returned home on a car at 7 o'clock. After eating supper, she was taken sick, and although everything that medical aid could do was rendered, she expired within an hour. Mrs. Bradford was 51 years of age. She was the wife of Mr. Harrison Bradford and the mother of Messrs. T. L. and H. C. Bradford. The funeral will occur from the residence at 10 o'clock Monday morning.
- November 20, 1898, Dallas Morning News, p. 4, col. 2.
"About the only compensation I remember that came to me during the war was the meeting and falling in love 'head over heels' with the brightest and loveliest girl of our part of Louisiana. Her name was Lizzie Shelmire. Her father, Tom Shelmire, was Pennsylvania Dutchman, and I think her mother was a French Creole, and the combination resulted in a fine team of thoroughbred Louisianans, and the children, John, Lizzie, Minnie and Jesse are fine examples of the stock that came from this father and mother.
...In November 1898, in a moment, death robbed us of one of the best wives and mothers the world ever saw. My dear wife was stricken with apoplexy, and in a few hours, died, the saddest blow our family ever had. May God help each of us, the remaining members of her family to meet her as we enter the gates of the Beautiful City."
Mrs. L.(H.) C. Bradford died suddenly of apoplexy at the family residence, 319 Routh street, about 9 o'clock last night. She and her son, H. C. Bradford, who had been downtown, returned home on a car at 7 o'clock. After eating supper, she was taken sick, and although everything that medical aid could do was rendered, she expired within an hour. Mrs. Bradford was 51 years of age. She was the wife of Mr. Harrison Bradford and the mother of Messrs. T. L. and H. C. Bradford. The funeral will occur from the residence at 10 o'clock Monday morning.
- November 20, 1898, Dallas Morning News, p. 4, col. 2.
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